Pretend you're eating a slice of pizza.
As you eat the pizza slice, you may be thinking about how *cheesy* the pizza is. Or maybe that it is *crispy* or *hot*.
These are all words that describe the pizza.
Keywords are words that you will use to describe your topic when you search!
Some of the words you would use to describe the pizza are included in the name of the pizza.
But as you eating the pizza slice, you discover other ways you could describe it based on the pizza's texture and taste.
Library databases and catalogs do not work the same way as Google. Library databases cannot ignore the unimportant words you put in your search. So it's up to you to select the most important words before you search. Retrieved from Identifying Keywords Library Tutorial.
To learn about Boolean (pizza) operators click here!
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